Microsoft announced significant updates to its AI agent ecosystem at its Ignite conference, expanding support to include 1,800 models through Azure AI. The company revealed that over 100,000 organizations are currently using or editing AI agents through its Copilot Studio platform. The updates include new autonomous capabilities that allow agents to work independently without human …
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI agent called “Operator” that can perform automated tasks like coding and travel booking on behalf of users, according to reporting by Shirin Ghaffary and Rachel Metz for Bloomberg. The company plans to release the tool in January 2024 as both a research preview and through their developer …
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are being improved through the integration of AI agents, according to an analysis by Shubham Sharma for VentureBeat. While traditional RAG systems combine data retrieval with language models to provide contextual answers, they are limited to single knowledge sources. The new “agentic RAG” approach incorporates AI agents that can access multiple …
Box has unveiled two major AI-focused products: Box AI Studio for creating custom AI agents and Box Apps for building no-code enterprise applications. CEO Aaron Levie announced these tools at the BoxWorks event as part of the company’s expansion from file sharing into intelligent content management, VentureBeat reports. Box AI Studio, built on partnerships with …
Microsoft has released Magentic-One, a new open-source infrastructure that enables a single AI model to manage multiple helper agents working together to complete complex, multi-step tasks in various scenarios. According to a paper by Microsoft researchers, Magentic-One is a generalist agentic system that can “fully realize the long-held vision of agentic systems that can enhance …
Many recently announced “AI agents” are actually sophisticated automation systems, according to Brian Evergreen and Pascal Bornet writing for VentureBeat. True AI agents can research, reason, decide and act to achieve a goal with full autonomy, while automation simply follows predefined recipes when conditions are met. Identifying genuine agency requires looking at a system’s behavior …
LinkedIn has launched Hiring Assistant, its first artificial intelligence agent designed to take on numerous tasks typically handled by job recruiters. According to Ingrid Lunden of TechCrunch, the AI tool can generate job descriptions from rough notes, source potential candidates, and engage with them. LinkedIn is initially rolling out Hiring Assistant to select enterprise customers, …
DeepMind researchers have introduced a new agentic framework called Talker-Reasoner, which is inspired by the “two systems” model of human cognition. The framework divides the AI agent into two distinct modules, VentureBeat reports: the Talker, which handles real-time interactions with the user and the environment, and the Reasoner, which performs complex reasoning and planning. The …
Asana, a work management platform, has introduced AI Studio, a new feature for creating AI agents for workflow management. As Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, explained to VentureBeat, users can now integrate multiple custom AI agents directly into their workflows without any coding knowledge. The aim is to relieve employees of routine tasks, …
Startup CrewAI is launching “CrewAI Enterprise,” a new platform that allows companies to create and deploy teams of AI agents. As founder João Moura told VentureBeat, the system greatly simplifies the creation and deployment of multi-agent systems. The platform is based on CrewAI’s popular open source framework and allows users to develop AI agents with …